Slog - Comments on The Anxiety of Hope http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_anxiety_of_hope The Stranger sent Eli Sanders to Iowa on Friday to see the first event in the Barack Obama/Oprah Winfrey tour. Hours before Obama's event tonight at Showbox Sodo, Sanders's full report on Obama's rise in Iowa and beyond is up on our website. Representative paragraph: Presidential campaigns are about the issues of the day, certainly, and these days there is no shortage of issues for the candidates to debate, chief among them the war in Iraq and its consequences. But for better or for worse, presidential campaigns are also, to a very large extent, about the stage presence and... Copyright 2008 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:49:36 -0800 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:24:59 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Will in Seattle It will be neat to see him on Wednesday.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_anxiety_of_hope#c871332 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_anxiety_of_hope#c871332 2008 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:07:32 -0800 Comment by The Oracle Obama is the One! He is Neo! How could I not have seen this before?

]]> The Oracle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_anxiety_of_hope#c871343 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_anxiety_of_hope#c871343 2008 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:14:54 -0800 Comment by backwoods stupid does he have and R after his name?

then he's fine by me.

]]> backwoods stupid http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_anxiety_of_hope#c871395 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_anxiety_of_hope#c871395 2008 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:54:57 -0800 Comment by urban stupid does he have and D after his name?

then he's fine by me.

]]> urban stupid http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_anxiety_of_hope#c871402 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_anxiety_of_hope#c871402 2008 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:00:27 -0800 Comment by frederick r this has all the makings of fine college journalism.

]]> frederick r http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_anxiety_of_hope#c871420 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_anxiety_of_hope#c871420 2008 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:08:30 -0800 Comment by diana who did that cool caricature?

]]> diana http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_anxiety_of_hope#c871498 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_anxiety_of_hope#c871498 2008 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:47:47 -0800 Comment by Lake YES BUT WAS CHRIS CROCKER THERE

]]> Lake http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_anxiety_of_hope#c871525 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_anxiety_of_hope#c871525 2008 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:00:28 -0800 Comment by Madge-YoursoakingINIT! I taste VOMIT at the back of my throat... Oh, here it comes!!!

]]> Madge-YoursoakingINIT! http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_anxiety_of_hope#c871657 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_anxiety_of_hope#c871657 2008 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:45:10 -0800 Comment by Madge-YoursoakingINIT! Bareback Osama is a giant queefing DOUCHE BAG! Just like the marketing army that keeps Oprah in the right fashions, hair, make-up and diet, Obama/Osama is being marketed in a pretty whitified package! An army of writers and image consultants have now taken over... He has no soul- it has been sold to Oprah and her evil power/money hungry minions!

]]> Madge-YoursoakingINIT! http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_anxiety_of_hope#c871664 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_anxiety_of_hope#c871664 2008 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:55:36 -0800 Comment by TLjr Did I miss the part where brother Barack kissed and made up to us homos for his the Donnie McClurkin preacher debacle of a few weeks back?

Memo to you, Barack. I'm still waiting for a real sincere kind of "I'm sorry."

]]> TLjr http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_anxiety_of_hope#c871737 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_anxiety_of_hope#c871737 2008 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:23:36 -0800 Comment by Steve Great essay, Eli. You made me feel as if I was there, both in the Hy-Vee arena, and out on I-80.

Thanks.

and GO OBAMA!

]]> Steve http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_anxiety_of_hope#c871843 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_anxiety_of_hope#c871843 2008 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:08:01 -0800 Comment by Chris in Tampa It looks like they superimposed Bush's trademarked squint on to Barack's inspiring gaze

]]> Chris in Tampa http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_anxiety_of_hope#c871878 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_anxiety_of_hope#c871878 2008 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:16:31 -0800 Comment by ann great article eli!

]]> ann http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_anxiety_of_hope#c872318 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_anxiety_of_hope#c872318 2008 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:24:48 -0800 Comment by Phoebe That picture is weird. I know it's a charicature and he's got big ears, but he's not Ross Perot, and he does not have a wandering eye. Jeez. You have to accentuate the defining characteristics - long face, wide mouth - when you do a charicature.

]]> Phoebe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_anxiety_of_hope#c873878 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_anxiety_of_hope#c873878 2008 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:24:59 -0800